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"But they're celebrating."
Yeah, if a foreign nation did a military operation and abducted Trump to face a trial for his crimes Americans would be in the streets celebrating.
But the celebration is going to be short when they realize their futures are now dictated by a felon rapist pedophile who's crashing his own nation's economy and violating his own citizen's rights.
Fuck off calling it an “operation”
Yes, very Russian. It's America's own "special military operation".
It is 100% an act of war, it's even a very obvious indisputable act of war. Yet we see European leaders refusing to call it so. 😡
A war crime and a terrorist operation.
Trump is still a pedophile. Don’t forget that. This is not a distraction from the Epstein files.
This headline needs to change.
US military murders 80 people an illegal raid on foreign soil.
RIP International law.
Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army. You know what I mean?
They never existed because we never had a real international police to enforce them. They kinda felt real because the US kinda acted like this police.
If we manage to escape the trump dictatorship, every soldier involved needs to be court-martialed and sentenced for following illegal orders.
This made me laugh. This is the same shit we've been doing for 100 years. "Illegal orders" aren't a thing when you use your imperial military to do imperialism. The last time we had a President that wasn't a war criminal was never.
FYI US soldiers involved in illegal orders in the USA are almost never court-martialed or even put on trial. The only one I can think of actually being convicted is the Mai Lai massacre way back in 1968. The US has become consistently more brazen in its flaunting of international law regarding war crimes and any policing of its armed forces through subsequent administrations since.
In fact its very rare for US troops or even military contractors brazenly ignoring orders and committing war crimes to even be put on trial, let alone be convicted. The most recent incident I can think of is the four Blackwater contractors during 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' that massacred 17 unarmed Iraqi civilians and injured 20 in Baghdad city. There was such overwhelming evidence in the case that they were convicted by a US court of murder (one member) and manslaughter (the other three) in 2014.
Even that was an unacceptable level of accountability for the Republicans, so Trump gave them all presidential pardons in his first term in 2020.
Fuck the USA.
Still waiting for a Western news source to call the US administration terrorists.
It is funny because Trump talks so much shit about the press, but they got his back. It is pretty sad to watch, but we have known for decades that the independent press is a lie in the US.
Meanwhile trump has reaffirmed his calls to annex greenland: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/04/greenland-trump-venezuela/88018306007/
Trump is everything bad about a psychopath, sociopath and narcissist.
Rolled up in what we call malignant narcissist. He has complete disregard for other people, and he has absolutely no conscience, and he expects to be worshiped.
Fuck Americans for making him president twice.
Just the way he spoke about watching it happening live and comparing it to a good TV show says a lot about his mental state.
Fuck America, let them suffer, make them burn, especially the current administration.
Murders.
Acting surprised after seeing the unlimited support by USA, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, UAE, India, China, Russia, Ukraine support for genociding the Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank is funny to me.
Now we see Canadian and Mexican afraid to even call the US out because no one will come to rescue them if the US did the same. And they deserve it.
Nothing lower to me than killing children and babies, so my expectations are non existing for such government and people.
Americans are terrorists and it’s people are cowards for allowing this to go on
The US acts of war? Why does the news do this. We all know this isn't an "operation".
Same reason Russia invading Ukraine was.
"Stop me."
the same NYT that dint bother reporting the attack, because they recieved the info days before it from the trump administration. NYT AND POST are cupable as well.
This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.
The amount of people who voted republican completely obliterates the tiny fraction of people who abstained from voting democrat. How about directing focus where it's relevant?
The amount of people who sat home on voting day outweighs both republican and democrat voters. Apathy won the last presidential election, just like every election in recent memory.
If venezuela had nuclear weapons none of this would have happened.
Fuck amrikkka
Fucking terrorist hell hole of a nation
Amrikkka is the satan
Burn this country down
The AfD is on the way to run the show, like many far right factions in many nation states of Europe.
The only way to stop tyranny is to stand up to it, and angry lemmy posts won’t do that. The danger is always much closer than the “foreigners” so many xenophobes like to point out.
Once tyranny is in power the resistance needs support, not condemnation. I thought this was known 80 years ago, apparently not so much today.